Romans 12:2 (Amplified) says, "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs, but be transformed (changed) by the entire renewal of your mind, by it's new ideals and it's new attitude, so that you may prove for yourselves what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect in His sight for you."
So many Christians say that bad things happening in their lives are, "Just the way things are" and/or "This is the new normal." I refuse to accept that what goes on now as being the new normal for my life and the lives of my family. The things happening in today's world are anything but "Good, acceptable and the perfect will of God," for His family. God's will is not to have Christians be afraid to allow their children to walk to school or have them in school. We've allowed ourselves to become conformed to the world and have accepted their customs and ideals.
When did God become unable to take care of His Own family? God is more than Able to watch over and care for us, but we've come to believe He can do so. We've adapted the modern theology which tells us that, "God doesn't do these things any longer" and we put up with what happens in our lives today. If we look at God's Original Intent for His family, then we won't find the fear and despair that plagues many of us today. Hebrews 4:2 (Amplified) says, "For indeed we have had the glad tidings (the Gospel) of God proclaimed to us just as truly as they, the Israelites of old did when the good news of deliverance from bondage came to them; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not mixed with faith (the the leaning of the entire personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His Power, Wisdom and Goodness), by those who heard it, neither were they united in faith with the ones (Joshua and Caleb) who heard and did believe."
Was God able to take care of the Israelites who were delivered out of Egypt? Did God make good on His Promise to those who believed Him? Only those who accepted what Egypt had given them as being "the new normal," adapted to the Egyptian customs and remained in the Wilderness. God said that they "tempted and limited Him from doing what He said, by their unbelief." Have we, as His Own family, done the same and limited God from keeping His Promises to us in this age and time, by our unbelief? Hebrews 11:39-40 (Amplified) says, "And all of these, though they won Divine approval by means of their faith, did not receive the fulfillment of what was Promised Because God had us in mind and had something better and greater in view for us, So that they, these heroes and heroines of faith should not come to perfection apart from us, before we could join them."
The heroes of faith that Paul writes about in the above scripture, weren't family yet, but were under the old covenant. Those heroes who were born-again under the new covenant, didn't have the Epistles and the Revelations Paul was given by Jesus Himself, compiled into one Book, like we have today. Many never read about God's Original Intent for His family. Some couldn't read Galatians 3:13-14 (Amplified) which says, "Christ purchased our freedom, redeeming us from the Curse (doom of the Law and its condemnation) by Himself becoming a Curse for us, for it is written in scripture, Cursed is everyone who hands on a tree (is crucified) To the end that through their receiving Christ Jesus, the Blessing Promised to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we through faith might all receive the realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit."
When looking at the ministry of the Last Adam, Jesus, we understand that in Him, we've been delivered back to God's Original Intent for His children. We've become a new creation family, like before Adam's fall in the Garden. The First Adam had no customs of the world to adapt to, but was dependent only on his Father, like Jesus was. Jesus walked like we do today, simultaneously as the Son of man and the Son of God. Through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, we walk in the same realm as Jesus did in His earthly ministry. We are sons and daughters of man, by our own natural birth and we are sons and daughters of God, by our new birth. We live in the flesh, but we war not after the flesh, according to 2Corinthians 10:3-4 (Amplified) which says, "For though we walk, live in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons. For the weapons of our warfare are not physical (weapons of flesh and blood), but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and the destruction of strongholds."
We read about God's Original Intent in 1Corinthians 3:9 (Amplified), which says, "For we are fellow workmen (joint promoters, laborers together) with and for God; You are God's garden and vineyard and field under cultivation, you are God's building." Genesis 2:8 (Amplified) tells us about God's Garden, saying, "And the Lord God planted a Garden toward the east in Eden (delight), and there He put the man whom He had formed (framed, constituted)." We've become that Garden, which was planted by God. We are His Own building or temple, that He dwells and lives in. 1Corinthians 3:16 (Amplified) says, "Do you not discern and understand that you the whole Church at Corinth are God's temple (His sanctuary) and that God's Spirit has His permanent dwelling in you to be at home in you, collectively as a Church and also individually?"
I'm very careful about what I write and say to the Church and God's people. My aim is to once again, bring us back to the faith that,"our God is still more than able to do more than we can ask or even think." Throughout the years, the enemy has caused us to believe that somehow, "God doesn't do these things anymore." The Super-natural works of God have all but been removed from our teaching, in the Church.
The Holy Spirit writes through Paul in 1Corinthians 3:17 (Amplified), "If anyone does hurt to God's temple or corrupts it with false doctrine or destroys it, God will do hurt to him and bring him to the corruption of death and destroy him. For the temple of God is holy (sacred to Him), and that temple you, the believing Church and its individual believer are." Teaching God's Church that, "God doesn't watch over, deliver, heal, speak or do mighty works anymore," is wrong and holds us back in unbelief. We limit the Holy One and grieve the Holy Spirit with our unbelief, like those in the Wilderness did.
This teaching is not designed to anger you or make you think you're not a good Christian. God never made anything, but good Christians. His work is perfection. We need to have vision and understanding, in order to trust Him beyond religion. We must seek Him for ourselves and don't simply rely on someone else's ideas.
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